Sonny Bill's Foaming Monster Experiment

R14'ers go to Zone Day:

Jake is going to Zone Day for 1500m, 800m, high jump, discus and 200m. Anna is doing 1500m, 800m and discus. Olivia is doing long jump, and Kelsey is doing 1500m and 800m. AJ is also running in the 1500m and 800m.

Go Room 14'ers!

Group Day results:

Group Day was tiring for Anna and Jake, because they had to do every event. Jake won high jump, and was 2nd in the 1500m and 800m, and 3rd equal in 200m. He also came 4th in the 400m and 5th in the finals of the 100m.

Olivia came 1st in long jump and she fell over and bruised her tail bone.

Cody didn't go very well, because he came 4th to last - he didn't have any water. He learnt that he needs to drink water to help him win. He was also versing hard people, too.

Jamie-Lee was very frustrated because she was ONE cm away from coming 3rd in shotput!

AJ's first race was the 1500m. He shot out at the start with Jake. He kept his pace up and won by 200m! In the 800m, it was AJ and another boy out at the lead, but at the final sprint, AJ won!

Chris feels pretty good about coming first in the 200m.

Kelsey came 2nd in the 1500m and 2nd in the 800m, and tied for 4th in the 400m.

Dana came 4th in the 800m and she doesn't know where she came in the 1500m. Group Day was exciting, because she was representing her school.

Science excites Students

Room 14 and Room 8 have been learning about Science and we've been split into groups of 4 to carry out the experiments.

Dana is writing up her results for making gloop and Olivia is using pulleys to lift weights.

It's interesting and exciting at the same time.

Athletic Champions

Tuesday next week, 10 students from Room 14 are going to Athletics Group Day at Sandspit School.
We are versing all different schools in Waiuku. Our goal is to get to Zone Day for some of the events.
Anna and Jake are in every event that is available. Jake wants to go to Zone Day for at least half of the events, and Anna wants to go to Zone Day for the 800m and long jump.
Good luck Room 14'ers!

Olivia's success!

My results in the Reading PROBE test today show that I read every night.
Teachers don't give just give you reading for homework for no point, they give it to us so we improve in our reading.
I'm surprised that it helped me and my family will be happy!

More results!

Results are coming in thick and fast for Room 14, showing how hard the Room 14 students have worked during the year.

Reading results to date:
Chris improved 3 massive year levels.
Dana has improved 2 year levels.
Olivia, Zyra, Jaimee, Eleanor, Arabella and Sian have improved more than 1 year level.

GLOSS (Maths Strategy) results:
Olivia, Zyra, Jaimee, Cody, Jamie-Lee, Eleanor, Arabella, Kelsey and Scott have all improved by one Stage.

IKAN (Maths Knowledge) results:
Chris improved by 2 stages.
Zyra, Eleanor, Kelsey, Jake and Scott improved by 1 Stage.

Basic Facts results:
Jamie-Lee, Arabella, Jake, Tom and Cody all achieved Level 4A - well above their expected level of achievement!
Anna improved a massive 4 sub-levels.
Jamie-Lee, Arabella, Tom and Sophie improved a huge 3 sub-levels.
Eleanor, Kelsey and Hamish improved 2 sub-levels.

Results still to come: Writing, Handwriting and the rest of the Reading results.

Impressive results Room 14!

R14 Performs at the opening of the Waiuku Town Centre

Printmaking Workshop

First, John showed us his printmaking and other famous printmaking, and then he told us how he did the printmaking. I like his ones, because he used layers of ink. John used slabs of limestone and then we got to try out the technique on foam. It was creative how it made a nice print on the paper. It was really fun. In many years to come, I think I will still be using his technique. John uses his art to show that birds are becoming extinct and we need to help them.

Thank you to Ms Yelchich for putting the time and effort into organising John's visit.

Go and look at John's website:

http://www.johnpusateri.com/

Year 7 Speech Competition

This morning Room 8 and Room 14 competed for three places to represent the Year 7s at the WPS Speech Competition this coming Thursday night.

Olivia and two other people delivered brilliant speeches and go on to represent the Year 7s on Thursday night - we are sure they will WIN!

Anna Coddington Latest News Report!

Anna Coddington has come to teach 10 students from Room 14 and 8 to write and to perform their own songs, using vocals and musical instruments.

Anna has kindly been sent to us courtesy of the NZ Music Commission as part of 'May is New Zealand Music Month'. This wonderful opportunity is inspiring us to write and to go with our imaginations and our dreams.

Anna and the 10 students are performing their work to the whole school Wednesday 26 May 2010 at 12 noon - come and enjoy the performance of our future famous singers!

Anna's website: http://www.annacoddington.com/